Dear Word:
Please stop autocorrecting the word “planing” to “planning” in my document. If I’m talking about a luthier’s workshop, I truly do mean planing, as in using a tool called a plane to shave thin curls of wood off a flat surface such as a plank of wood. Contrary to what you may think, I am not dumb, nor am I misspelling the word, and your assumptions to the contrary are not appreciated. In fact, I’m going to turn the autocorrect function off, and I don’t know why I haven’t done so yet in this story.
No love,
Me.
Doesn’t Word give you the option of adding words to its dictionary?
That way you can keep autocorrect on and get frustrated about other corrections that it makes! Keep life interesting!
The joys of Microsoft Office!
Under the “tools” menu
Autocorrect options
Where it says “replace ___ with ___” put “replace planing with planing”
Because it seems to autocorrect without actually being in the autocorrect menu, so you can’t just take it out.
We hates it, preciousss….
Word seems to take any word that’s not in its dictionary and tries to change it to something that is. I can turn the autocorrect option for a single word off; it gives me a little drop-down menu on a word it’s autocorrected with an option to stop doing it to that word only. Except that since there’s so much damn Italian in this story, it was just easier to turn it off completely in this document. There’s only so much “interesting” I can take. :)
I might indeed turn it on again later for the entertainment value.
I get Word telling me that I have misspelled Devon and Pasley. Apparently her name should be “Demon” (heh heh) and mine should be “Parsley.” I mean, I got enough of that in elementary school, fer cryin’ out loud! I feel like I’m being deliberately taunted!
I’ve tried adding our names to the program so that it will bloody shut up about it, but it still won’t.
Remember, this is why we don’t use MS products. They are not smart enough for people who know what they want to say.
Word is evil.
Word is not usable by thinking individuals. It was designed to be used by the lowest common denominator. People who think neighbour should be spelled neighbor, for example.
Do not use Word. There are options available to us all.
Personally, I use Wordperfect. Tal approved! It’s Canadian-owned, too.
I know, I know: the comfort of habit and all that. Turn off auto-correct.
Word is evil.
I recommend trying out OpenOffice. Here are a couple of reasons:
1) It’s a fully-featured office suite that does pretty much everything that Microsoft Office does.
2) You can easily share files with Microsoft Office users. It can open MS Office documents with no loss of formatting and it can save your new documents in MS Office formats.
3) Unlike Word, OpenOffice will also save in the standardized, non-proprietary OpenDocument format. Try opening a Word 2.0 document with Office XP. Word barely recognizes it’s own ancestors. And if Microsoft ever bites the biscuit, you’re up the proverbial creek. Several national and state governments are dumping MS Office in favor of OpenOffice so that their archived e-texts can still be accessed by virtually any word-processing program 10, 20, 50 years from now.
4) IT’S OPEN-SOURCE AND ABSOLUTELY FREE.
Word is evil. I think I’m not surprising anyone at all when I say this. Word is also stupid, obtuse, inflexible, and frustrating for the intelligent end user.
Bah! Is all I really have to say about Word (it doesn’t deserve more of my time).
Okay, you’ve caught my interest, Jeff; I’ll be checking it out. :)